Abstract
In the mid-1980s, nuclear power seemed to be an idea whose time had come and passed. The public seemed to have rejected it because of fear of radiation. The Three Mile Island accident was still fresh in their minds, with annual reminders from the news media on each anniversary. The Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union in April 1986 reinforced the fears, and gave them an international dimension. Newspapers and television, on several occasions, reported stories about substandard equipment and personnel performance at nuclear power plants.
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Cohen, B.L. (1990). Nuclear Power — Act II. In: The Nuclear Energy Option. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6002-3_1
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